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Dana Kozlov

TV reporter/anchor | CBS Chicago | Class of 1990

The campus spot Dana Kozlovshould say is her all-time favorite is the cozy corner of the Illini Union where she spent hours upon hours studying.

“I liked the hushed, crowded solitude" of the wood-paneled, small lounge on the east side of theUnion, she says.

But let’s be real.

“The place that still makes me smile in recollection is, yes, a bar," says the reporter/anchor for CBS Chicago.

That would be O’Malley's. "I not only hung out there but worked there until I was ‘fired’ days before finishing college," Kozlov says. "I was literally lifted from behind the bar and over to the patron side by bouncer Big Walt.

"It’s where I spent time with my favorite people, including my still-best friend in the world and other strangers-turned-friends I am still close with today.

“And every time I hear ‘American Pie,’ I am taken right back to a campus experience and education that shaped my adult life.”